Example sentences of "[being] to " in BNC.

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1 Police must ‘ find out from our consumers what it is they require from us , how sensitive we are being to their needs and how satisfied they are with the service ’ .
2 It seemed , in that brilliant silence , to be flinging open all the pores and cells of its being to the Light that poured into it .
3 The former 11th tee box , on what is now the 10th fairway , was sufficiently far back from the road for the majority of golfers to carry the road with their second ( or third ! ) shots , although some doughty souls had a go for the green from the tee using the existing oak tree as being to the left of the ideal line ; ( 3 ) reconstructing the 13th afresh and ( 4 ) taking back the 14th tee box considerably as now .
4 Among her letters are two ‘ On her Writings being to be printed ’ .
5 The Committee soon became the Central ( Unemployed ) Body ( CUB ) , with one of its functions being to ‘ establish , take over , and assist Labour Exchanges or Employment Registers and collect information ’ .
6 It seems that there has been no period of time during which man has endeavoured to conduct and control his affairs without providing for himself a worshipable entity or being to whom he can appeal , and to whom he has attributed powers of control over all that happens in the universe , particularly on earth .
7 This statement has been echoed through the ages — by Plato : ‘ Love is the desire and pursuit of the whole ’ ; by Coleridge : ‘ Love is a desire of the whole being to be united to some thing , some being , felt necessary for its completeness ’ ; and by the man in the street ; ‘ My other half ’ , or even ‘ My better half ’ ; or in Erickson 's terms : ‘ the ‘ me in you ’ ’ .
8 Please forgive this invitation being to the reception only .
9 He travelled extensively in Europe studying geology , his most celebrated trip being to Russia in 1841 on the invitation of Emperor Nicholas .
10 But he was always prepared to turn off the tape and listen to her ranting on about how she missed Ricky and how bloody the Argentines were being to her and to their horses .
11 The icon assists in focusing the mind on the Being to whom one prays .
12 Early evening on the 23rd Laurie Baker took Sugar to bomb troop concentrations at Wesel , just across the river Rhine , the purpose of the attack being to soften-up the enemy positions prior to the crossing of the Rhine by our ground forces .
13 Law and the legal system thus have to be seen in a differentiated way , no longer consistently structured by one uniform language and one common principle ( such as a hierarchy of values or a grundnorm ) , but as being to some extent split into a plurality of legal arenas ( Lowi , 1972 ) .
14 He looked for fulfilment in the complete dedication of his being to the vocation which pushed him irresistibly towards painting and painting with joy .
15 James Sadler made only one subsequent aerial visit to the region , that being to Deken 's Lodge , Pickworth , near Stamford , which was the termination point for the first flight from Nottingham made in 1813 .
16 Using object-oriented 4GL technology , his differentiator in this mature market will be the extremely visual part , the goal being to practically force developers to write friendly software .
17 dedicated her whole being to his life and his work .
18 Two options seem common , the first being to Miami and then on to La Paz direct or via one or two other stops , though usually without changing planes .
19 The Bruces , whose currying of favour with Edward had resulted in the restoration of their estates , stirred up minor troubles but seemed glad to yield for the time being to their benefactors and express disapproval of Wallace 's wild conduct .
20 So vivid was her imagination that she became adept at having conversations with him in which he was always making her laugh , always being to her the sort of person she longed to have as a life companion .
21 These offices would be organized hierar-chically , with compliance being to superordinate instructions expressed in terms of universal fixed rules .
22 However , an increasing proportion of audit appointments have been made to private sector accounting firms , the intention being to ultimately provide for a 50/50 split of appointments between the Commission 's own staff and the private sector .
23 Specifically the Commission ( Audit Commission , 1983 , p. 9 ) sees its mission as being to :
24 The third is that , turning Mr. Glick 's argument against him , the immediate practical impact of the recognition of the principle will be limited , for ( unlike the present case ) most cases will continue for the time being to be regulated by the various statutory régimes now in force .
25 It is not suggested however that directors ' duties , which are largely of judicial creation , are shaped by a theory that regards the purpose of the company and company law as being to further the public interest : it is not suggested that the ‘ social enterprise ’ perspective has influenced the development of the law .
26 If in a subsequent Act Parliament chooses to make it plain that the earlier statute is being to some extent repealed , effect must be given to that intention just because it is the will of the Legislature .
27 … there is no barrier to be crossed , no mysteriously other kind of being to be met and placated .
28 Instead the universe has become one-dimensional ; there is no barrier to be crossed , no mysteriously other kind of being to be met and placated .
29 He does not mention , however , the choices that have to be made during execution of such trials , the ultimate allegiance of the clinician being to each patient separately while that of the researcher is to the overall trial design .
30 The main result that emerges from such an existential self-analysis is that man owes his understanding of the meaning of being to the fact that he exists in an object-transcending manner , and is therefore able to conceive of the possibility of nothingness , i.e. of the world not existing at all .
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